❤️ Mrs. Fran & Mrs. Laverne ❤️

Mrs. Fran & Mrs. Laverne work at the Wendy's in Maple Grove, MN and have for years. (Mrs. Laverne is not pictured her but I will add a photo as soon as I can get one of her.) Both ladies are 88 years young. I love seeing their happy faces when I bop in to get one of their amazing salads. I will be honest. I do not know if they work because they like to keep busy (it seems if this were the case they could get a job that is less physically demanding) or if the more likely scenario, social security & Medicare does not cover their living expenses. In the United States when you are 88 years old you should not have to work yet these two ladies are there every day and out work most teenagers who do the same job.

I should have done this for them a long time ago but it took something that happened to Mrs. Fran today 9/1/16 with the couple who was in line in front of me for me to know I needed to take action.

While waiting in line the couple in front of me ordered three frosty's. Two medium vanilla & one small chocolate. Mrs. Fran did her best to hear them but asked the couple to repeat themselves a few times and therefore repeated the order back to them incorrectly a couple of times before she got it right; they both got snippy with her, rolling their eyes and taking multiple big sighs just to make sure Mrs. Fran would know how irritated they were with her service. They again got rude with her when Mrs. Fran told them that they do not have M & M's or any other toppings (Dairy Queen is right across the street). By the time they left (no thank you of course) you could see by Mrs. Fran's body language she felt embarrassed/irritated and a bit defeated. So when it was my turn I did the best I could to show her the respect she deserves; smiling, saying please and thank you & yes Ma'am (what we teach our kids to say to our elders from the time they are two years old. I tried to lift her spirits best I could durning our brief interaction and I went to sit down when it hit me and hit me hard what the Universe wanted me to do for them for all these years.

If this middle-aged couple thought it was OK to treat Mrs. Fran they way they did how must other people be treating Mrs. Laverne & Mrs Fran badly on a daily basis? My guess is sadly, many.

We live in a country where our elderly population have to work later and later in life, that is a sad fact. I say that it is our job as a society to take better care of them all. So until the laws/government catches up to what we should all be doing I say we all step up in any way we can. This is one of the ways I want to step up and am asking for your help.

My first hope is this: I would like to raise money for Mrs. Laverne & Mrs. Fran to give them a fun day or weekend at a spa. If we surpas this goal I would like to give them a fun holiday somewhere relaxing and beautiful. I say we can do even better then that. If we can raise even more money then that maybe these beautiful women could take some time off or work less if we could help them with some of their bills or living expenses.

My grandmothers have both passed but if they were with us I would be heart broken to think they would still be working this hard at 88 years old. Let's work together and help these beautiful women enjoy a spa day or better yet help them both live a more gentle life. They have worked hard long enough. We owe it to them for all their years of hard work. There is just the two of them but maybe this will also inspire others to take notice , step up and help our growing senior population. Any amount will help.

Thank you for your time.

Taya